Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America--an Anthology Book

	Introduction
	Prologue
	Strong Men (Opening Stanzas)	3
	I Am a Black Man	7
	IKOP MBOG: An Account of an African Child's Initiation	9
	On Viewing the Coast of Africa	11
	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass	12
	Up from Slavery	20
	Let the Dead Bury Their Dead	27
	The Souls of Black Folk	36
	Message of Marcus Garvey to Membership of Universal Negro Improvement Association from Atlanta Prison	41
	Juneteenth	44
	Poem for My Father	57
	Black Boy	59
	Father	66
	Notes of a Native Son	72
	Nightmare	77
	Colored People	85
	Tragic Magic	91
	Ten Seconds	96
	A Talk with My Father	100
	A Private War	110
	Father's Pledge	118
	Beetlecreek	120
	Manchild in the Promised Land	122
	Dancers on the Shore	126
	Strike and Fade	132
	The Screamers	135
	Way Past Cool	140
	Two Fools	148
	Ghetto Bastard	151
	Brer Rabbit Escapes Again	154
	Reflecting Black	158
	The Ghetto Solution	168
	Black Women	181
	Middle Passage	182
	The Wife of His Youth	194
	Another Good Loving Blues	203
	Elbow Room	209
	Home Repairs	214
	The Lonely Crusade	219
	Sex and Racism in America	223
	No Other Tale to Tell	228
	White Butterfly	231
	All-Night Visitors	235
	First Poem for Linnet	241
	A New Man	244
	My Sparrow	251
	Losing Absalom	256
	What Is Life?	264
	A Father's Lament	269
	Makes Me Wanna Holler	272
	On the A-Train to Venus with Isis	278
	The Walls of Jericho	286
	Brothers	290
	Lush Life	297
	Pledging Alpha	302
	Invisible Life	306
	Vanishing Rooms	312
	In an Afternoon Light	315
	African-American Males and Survival Against AIDS	318
	A Lesson Before Dying	321
	If We Must Die	329
	The Lynching of Jube Benson	330
	Blood-Burning Moon	336
	Billy	342
	Shannon	348
	The Future of Black Men	351
	Parallel Time	358
	Race and Gender Stereotyping in the Thomas Confirmation Hearings	365
	Days of Grace	369
	Faces at the Bottom of the Well	373
	When Harlem Was in Vogue	377
	And Then We Heard the Thunder	379
	The Port Chicago Mutiny	385
	Beyond Vietnam	392
	Bloods	395
	Black Consciousness in the Vietnam Years	399
	Raceboss: Big Emma's Boy	404
	Iron City	410
	Black Prisoners, White Law	414
	Brothers and Keepers	418
	Makes Me Wanna Holler	426
	Scars	433
	Father Behind Bars	438
	Still Black, Still Strong: Survivors of the U.S. War Against Black Revolutionaries	441
	A Man Called White	448
	Who's Passing for Who?	455
	The Almost White Boy	459
	Man in the Mirror	467
	Blacks Who Pass	471
	Black Worker in the Deep South	477
	Blood on the Forge	481
	The Spook Who Sat By the Door	484
	Company Man	489
	The Content of Our Character	496